Stralfully be towards him did pas, Ferting up aloft his speckled brest, A bounding on the bruzed gras, A great joyance of his new come guest. Spenser. The Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 11. Imperiously he leaps, he neighs, he bounds, And now his woven girts he breaks asunder, The bearing earth with his hard hoof he wounds, Whose bollow womb resounds like Heaven's thunder. Ta strange! the pilot keeps his seat; Was the poor passengers are found, In their own fears already drown'd.-Cotton. Winter. -This discourse did breath The fery boundings of his heart, that still Lay in that sture.-Chapman. Homer. Odyssey, b. xx. Perde but note a wilde and wanton heard Ore of youthful and vnhandled colts, Feng mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, Wach is the hot condition of their bloud. Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, Act v. sc. 1. I've seen a huntsman, active as the morn, Saate her earliest blush with sounding horn; Pars the bounding stag with op'ning cries, And rht the timid hare, his easy prize: Then, with the setting sun, his hounds restrain ; bosading stag, nor timid hare obtain. BOUND,. BOUND, BYNDARY. or Blacklock. Desiderium Lutetiæ. Low Lat. Bonna, borna, or bunda, bonnare; Fr. Bonne, or borne, borner. BOUNDER. Abonner, aborner, to fix the BUNDLESS. bourn or bound; to include, BUNDLESSNESS. or inclose within limits; to dor (with the mere difference of the interhable letters b, and p,) to pound, from the A&verb Prad-an, to inclose. To inde or inclose, within limits or confines; mt, to confine, to restrict or restrain; to de e or terminate. Fist the nemaid alle the, Tat bergh the reame suld go, the boundes forto stake. R. Brunne, p. 309. And every reaume went he for to see, strong that no man might him let; A worldes endes, saith Trophee, lee of boundes he a pillar set. Chaucer. The Monkes Tale, v. 14,121. Why doest thou rather put into his head howe farre he mayettede the boundes of his dominions, then put him in Sauce with howe narrowe lymites the seignorie, he hath nowe at this present, was in old tyme ned-Udal. Mark, Pref. p. x. The Pers and Plowma hopes to picke a thake, refre and restrane thern fro euvl, and some tyme holeSave the feare of infamy, dishonour and dyspraise, somy tyle and contei ne them within the limites & Sir T. More. Workes, p. 622. de of god and honorable order. Fu: let v Erst consider the breadth and bignesse of this Jutting the which as euery man man knoweth, is 47. deeach packe, which are the bounders thereof, being Gegress and a halfe distant from the equinoctiall. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 48. Which to outbarre, with paineful pyonings Whose circled waters rapt with whirling sway Besides her modest countenance he saw This ranging fancie did refraine, Autoser thoughts to lawful bounds withdraw. Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 6. But, Sir with what possibilitie can your constitution be so boundlessly amorous as to affect all women of what degree, forme or complection soeuer? Marston. The Fawne, D 42. (1606.) -Ye good distrest! Ye noble few! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deemed evil, is no more.-Thomson. Winter. As in geometry, of all lines or surfaces contained within the same bounds, the streight line and the plain surface are the shortest: so it is also in morality: by the right line of Justice, upon the plain ground of Vertue, a man soonest will arrive to any well-chosen end.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 5. pwes roll forward like a gentle flood, being stopp'd, the bounding banks o'erflows: Shakespeare. Rape of Lucrece. caled with nor law nor limit knows. es and when shee hath done her best, to supply the miracles, hee loves ever to meet nature in her overruling power.-Bp.Hall. Cont. Simon called. whom all the skill and power of armes did late a man in counsell poore, that (trauelling) goes Ang past a boundlere plaine) not knowing where 练 20e on the sudden, where he sees a riuer rough. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. v. Let active thought these close meanders trace, Prior. Solomon, b. i. God has given no man a body as strong as his appetites: but has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires, by stinting his strengths, and contracting his capacities. South, vol. i. Ser. 1. The world was ne'er design'd for thee: Cotton. Content, Vision 4. Is there a temple of the deity, BOUNTY. Bo'UNTEOUSLY. BOUNTIFULLY. BOUNTIFULNESS. Bo'UNTIHEAD. Lyttelton. Cato's Speech to Labienus. Fr. Bonté; It. Bontà; Sp. Bondad; Lat. Bonitas, (of unsettled etymology,) is Goodness, kindness, beneficence, benevolence, munificence, liberality, generosity. For God it wot, that children often been Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8032. This maid, of which I tell my tale expresse, Nature set in hir at ones Of comly hede, and of feture, Be liche hir in comparison.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. Hereby see we that dedes and works are but outward signes of the inward grace of the bounteous and plenteous mercy of God, frely receyued without all merites of deedes, ye and before all dedes.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 66. Wherfore he thancked the king with all his harte for his honorable present, promising to requite his bounteous liberalitye, by some good tourne that lay in his owne pryuate power to doo.-Goldyng. Justine, fol. 128. Ye maye (sayde the kynge) bounteouselye rewarde me, if ye lende me the yonge man that daunsed before your maiestie. Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. i. c. 20. A parte of ye cause was, yt the sayd Charlys after theyr thynkyng, had not so bounteously rewarded them as they had deseruyd.-Fabyan. Ludovici XI. an. 1465. But this sudden pang, hauing first commended the bounteousness of his minde,-the LL. of the senate staied;affirming it to be the dissolution of the empire, if the reuenewes by which it was sustained should be diminished. Grenewey. Tacitus. Annales, p. 196. Then the commons louyngly thaked the kyng and muche praised his witte that he had denyed it to them when they unworthely demaunded it, and had bountifully graunted it when he perceiued that they sorowed and lamented. Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 22. And in affliccions thorowe the help of God they be inuincible and if any prosperitie come vnto them, thei ascribe it wholly to the goodnes and bountifulnes of God. Udal. Matthew, c. 4. Wherefore, he vsyng all lenitie, mercie, and bounteousnesse would not once touche or apprehende the body of King Henry, whome he might both haue slaine, and vtterly destroyed, considering that he had him in his warde and gouernance.-Grafton. Hen. VI. an. 33. Rue on me, Lord, for thy goodnes and grace, For that goodness, that in the worlde dothe brace For that I may not remark the bounties of God running over the tables of the rich, God hath also made provisions for the poorest persons; so that if they can but rule their desires, they shall have their tables furnished. Wyatt. Psalme 51. Taylor, vol. ii. Ser. 26. Now gins this goodly frame of temperance On firme foundation of true bountihed. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 12. If then he be as deceived and as absurd, who thinketh that the gods be mortal and corruptible, as he who is of opinion, that they bear no bountiful and loving affection toward men, Chrysippus is as far from the truth as Epicurus. Holland. Plutarch, p. 881. Hath the kings bountifulnesse giuen lands and possessions to Christian churches for this end? that Clearkes harlots should bee pampered with delicious dainties. Slowe. The West Saxons, an. 974. His honest friends, at thirsty hour of dusk, Philips. Cyder, b. ii. The duke turned to the lady, and told her, it now remains for me to put you in quiet possession of what your husband has so bountifully bestowed on you; and ordered the iminediate execution of Rhynsault.-Spectator, No. 491. For Providence decrees, that we obtain With toil each blessing destin'd to our use; But means to teach us, that our toil is vain, If he the bounty of his hand refuse.-Scott, Eleg. 3. But oh thou bounteous giver of all good, Thou art of all thy gifts thyself the crown! Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor; And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away. Cowper. Task, b. v. To thy blest hand, and bounteousness of mind, That grieves itself to see another's pain.-Boyse. Ode. It is true, indeed, the direction of the public weal is in the hands of a single person, who, for the general good, takes upon himself to ease us of the whole care and weight of government; but still that bountiful source of power permits, by a very generous dispensation, some streams to flow down to us.-Melmoth. Pliny, b. iii. Let. 20. If they are less bountifully provided than the rich, with the materials of happiness for the present life, let them how ever be thankful to Providence that they have fewer difculties to contend with, fewer temptations to combat, and fewer obstacles to surmount, in their way to the life which is to come.-Porteus, vol. ii. Lect. 17. BOURD, v. Bourd, n. Bo'URDING. Fr. Bourde, scoffs, jeasts. gibes, cuts, quips, (Cotgrave. ) Dut. Boerde; Mid. Lat. Burda. Dr. Jamieson thinks that the Fr. Bourd-er is merely an abbreviation of Be-houdir, behorder, to joust together with lances,-and that this being a species of mock fighting very common in former times, the idea has been transferred to talking in jest or mockery. To Bourd, bord or board, seems merely to be-To abord or aboard, to accost, to approach; to accost in speech, to address; or direct the speech or discourse to: to attack in speech, sportively, jestingly; to jeer or jest, to banter. Bretheren, quad he, take kepe what I shal say; Chaucer. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12,710. Id. The Manciples Prol. v. 17,026. Gamelyn satte him adoun Turberville. The Louer wisheth, &c. Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. iv She smote her breast and rushing through the rout; "streams of water" being "the most distinguishable aboriginal divisions of property." (See BOURN, Surrey. Virgile. Æneis, b. iv. infra.) The Bourn of Spenser is previously de Ye should not, sir, in a strange land, Sir Eger. Ellis. Rom. vol. iii. They all agreed: so turning all to game Whom thus at gaze the Palmer gan to bord Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 2. Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 3. I am wise enough to tell you I can bourd where I see occasion, or if you like my uncle's wit better than mine, Ford. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Act iii. sc. 5. you shall marry me. Gramercy, Borril, for thy company, For all thy jests, and all thy merry bourds, Upon thy judgment much I shall rely, Because I find much wisdom in thy words. BOURDON, n. Drayton Pastorals, Ecl. 7. Burden, or Burthen, (qqv.) And there in mourning spend their time With wailfull tunes, whiles wolves do howle and barke, And seem to beare a bourdon to their plaint. Spenser. On the Death of Sir Philip Sidney. BOURGEON, v. Į Sursum geminans is renBo'URGEON, n. }dered by burton nynge upwards. Menage says the Fr. Bourgeon is from Burrio; and Burrio from Burra. Skinner, that it is from Bourre, soft down, because buds are generally soft and downy. But the origin of Bourre is still to seek. Fr. Bourgeonner, to bud, to spring or sprout out, to put or shoot out, (Cotgrave.) Biholde ghe that no man faile to the grace of God, that no roote of bittirnesse buriownynge upward lette and manye be defoulid by it.-Wiclif. Ebrewis, c. 12. Wost thou not well (qd. she) but euery tree in his seasonable time of bourioning shew his blomes from within, in signe of what fruite shoulde out of him spring, els the fruit for that yere men halt deliuered, be the ground neuer so good. And though the stock be mighty at ye full, & ye braunches seer & no burions shew, farwel ye gardiner, he may pipe with an yue leaf, his fruit is failed. Chaucer. Testament of Loue, b. iii. Good lady (qd. I than) it hath oft be seen, yt weathers & stormes so hugely haue fall in burioning time, & by perte duresse han beaten of the springs so clean, wherthrough ye fruit of thilk yere hath failed. It is a great grace whā burions han good wethers, their fruits foorth to bring.-Id. Ib. noted a river, st. 2. See the quotation from Stow. Ne care ne feare I how the wind do blow She Beverley salutes, whose beauties so delight, The fair-enamour'd flood, as ravish'd with the sight, That she could ever stay, that gorgeous phane to view, But that the brooks and bourns so hotly her pursue. Drayton. Poiy-Olbion, s. 28. Diuers bournes sodainly brake out of the hollowe places of the earth, and ouerflowed a great part of Canterbury cittie, the streame whereof was so swift and violent, that it bare downe buildings and houses, and drowned manie people. Stow. Hen. III. an. 1271. BOURN. Fr. Bonne or Borne, a bound, limit, meere, march; the end or furthest compass of a thing, (Cotgrave.) For the etymology, see To BOUND or INCLOSE, We'll see when 'tis enough, when both eyes out, The prince of King. The Art of Cookery. has taken me in his train, so that I am in no danger of starving for this bout. Goldsmith. A Letter from a Traveller. BOUTEFEU. Fr. Boute-feu, a wilful or voluntary firer of houses; also a fire-brand of sedition, a kindler of strife and contention: one that loves to set, and see men together by the ears. For an example, see the quotation from Hammond in v. BROIL. A charge was brought up from the House of Commons to the Lords, by Sir Henry Vane the Younger, a most note rious sectarist, an indefatigable boutefeu, and promoter o the discontents and rebellion that followed. Wood. Athena Ozon. W. Laud When the Long Parliament began, he [Will. Strode became an active and busy man, and a downright boulefe therein against the king's prerogative.-Id. Ib. BOW, v. Bow, n. Bo'WER. Bo'WYER. Bo'WING, n. Bo'WHAND. Bo/WMAN. A. S. Byg-an; Dut. Buygen Ger. Beugen; Sw. Boga, to bow To bend, to curve, to crook, t arch, to incline, to decline. Bow, the noun, whether a plied to the inclination of th body in reverence; or to an e Shakespeare. Troil. & Cress. Act. ii. sc. 3. gine of war; or an instrument of musick; or Cleop. If it be love indeed, tell me how much. Fawke. The Sparrow. The Dut. Buyse is, (according to particular kind of knot; or the curved part of saddle, or of a ship; or to the arc-en-ciel, (rai bow ;) or to bended legs; or to the branches trees; always means one and the same thing; v bended or curved; and is the past tense and pa part. of the A. S. Bygan, flectere, incurvare. § Tooke, ii. 216. Wiclif renders the Lat. declinare, vitare, (sc. slip on one side, to escape,) by the English wo BOUSE. Kilian,) a cup with two handles, to bow. It is also used (consequentially) for Bo'usy. which on account of its size is taken up and set down with both hands. Buysen, to drink out of from the Gr. pure, to blow. It seems plainly such a cup, to drink largely. Skinner suggests formed from the Fr. Boire, to drink, beu, drunken. To bouse is To drink largely, sottishly; to swill. To give way, to yield, to submit; to obey. Conon bowede a doun to hym, & thonkede hym faste And bi het to serue hym trewliche, the while ys lyf la R. Gloucester, p The bowiares ssoppe hii breke, & bowes nome ech on. Wilton had thei taken, Southampton also, Cornwaile and Wales bouwed tham vnto. Id. p. R. Brunne, P And brynge alle men to bowe. with oute bitter wonde Piers Ploukman, P And the day began to bowe doun, and the twelve c into castels and tounes that ben aboute that thei fynde n for we ben here in a desert place.-Wiclif. Luke, c. 9. Wonderously wrynkled. Skelton. Elinour Rumming. and seiden to him, leeve the puple that thei go and t Still as he rode, he somewhat still did eate, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 4. Now, though from the table he [Sylla] was commonly found both very active, painful, and severe; yet falling into such company, by drinking, bowsing, and making good By the flowres the fruites are knowen, and the vines in cheer, he suddenly became another manner of man. North. Plutarch, p. 387. burgenyng.-Golden Boke, c. 42. The guests upon the day appointed came, Each bowsy farmer with his simpering dame. King. The Old Cheese. Rous'd at his name, up rose the bowsy sire, And shook from out his pipe the seeds of fire. Thus Cham his broode did burgeon first, Warner. Albion's England, b. i. c. 1. Also they have devised, that the said impe to be engrafted, be gathered from the tree when it beginneth to bud or burgen. Holland. Plinie, b. i. c. 15. Furthermore looke what is the nature that forked trees have in their boughes, the same hath the vine in her eyes and burgeons.-Id. Ib. b. xvi. c. 30. When first on trees burgen the blossomes soft, And gath'reth seed so from the fruitfull winde. Fairefax. Godfrey of Bulloigne, b. vii. s. 76. O that I had the fruitful heads of Hydra, Dryden. Don Sebastian, Act i. sc. 1. BOURN. A. S. Byrna, burn; Dut. Born; Ger. Born, brunn; Sw. Brunna. A well, spring, fountain. Junius and Wachter think it is from the Gr. Bpue, to spring or flow forth. Ihre, from Rinnan, be-rinnan, brinnan, to run. See an example from Milton in v. BosKY. Perilous bourne in Spenser is, in st. 38 of the same Canto, called perilous shard: and T. Warton thinks that Bourne here, and perhaps always, means boundary: Where'er you see ungracious Ham, But leave we Hob to clamber out, And I saigh, and lo a whyt hors, and he that sat on hadde a bouwe, and a crowne was gouun to him ar wente out ouercomynge that he schulde ouercome. Id. Apocalips And beholde there was a whyte horsse, and he that s hym had a bowe, and a crowne was geuen vnto him, a went forth coquering and for to ouercome.-Bible, 155 Ther were also of Martes division, Th' armerer, and the bowyer, and the smith, For euer his bowe is ready bent, And whom he hit I tell hym shent.-Gower. Con. A A great alter there stood, by which there grew Surrey. Virgile. Enai By worshippyng, whether it was in the olde testam newe, vnderstand the bowing of a mans self vpon the gi as we ofte tymes, as we kneele to our prayers bote our and lie on our armes & hands with our face to the gr Tyndal. Workes Then all the gonnes seuered them selues into one the pykes in another, and the bowmen in another. Hall. Hen. VIII. When the Turke was arriued, he bent his or toward the towne and did no great harm, when he s the walles were of that defence that ordinaunce harme, he caused all his pyoners to cast yearth one ouer another styl, tyll they came within a bowsho Drayton. Nymphidia. wall.-Grafton. Hen. VIII. an. 14. They re little drummes at their sadle bowes, by the sound when their horses vse to runne more swiftly. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 314. Wilan shot so wonderous well, Thys arrowes were all agoe, And the fyre so fast upon hym fell, That hys bowstring brent in two.-Adam Bell. Percy. She sees her son, her God, Bow with a load Of borrow'd sins; and swim In woes that were not made for him. Crashaw. Sancta Maria Dolorum. So farely dight, when she in presence came, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 12. -When he came, he saw Ties viewing, ere he tried to draw The famous bear; which euery way he mou'd; Tp and downe turning it: in which he prou'd The plight it was in: fearing chiefly, lest The bores were eate with wormes, in so long rest: But what his thoughts intended, turning so; And keeping such a search about the bow; The vers little knowing, fell to iest, And said; past doubt, he is a man profest In tower craft, and sees quite through the wood. And now his well-known bow the master bore, Lest time or worms had done the weapon wrong, owner absent and untry'd so long. While some deriding-"How he turns the bow! Pope. Homer. Ib. -See, though from far, His thousands, in what martial equipage Id. Paradise Regained, b. iii. 1. 305. But I shall instance only in the Greek and Syriack churches: in the Greek they have their ordinary bowings, which they properly call porkuvuara, worshippings; and their extraordinary which they call meтavotas; which are of two sorts, the lesser and the greater; the lesser are, when they for their heads only to the ground; the greater, when they be prostrate upon it.-Beveridge, vol. i. Ser. 5. the string is always ready upon their bow to let fly arrow ill repert] with an incredible swiftness, through city and country, for fear the innocent man's justification should overtake it-Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 42. BOWEL, v. Bo'WEL, n. Bo'WELS. Bo'WELLESS. Fr. Boyau, boyaux; It. Budello, which Menage derives from the Lat. Botellus. Junius observes, that the English word seems to be taken from bow, to bend, to wind, to twist: as the Gr. ενδινα, παρα το εντος δινεισθαι, on account of their folds or convolutions within us-quod intus convolvantur in gyrum. (Flexuosissimis orbibus, Plin. xi. 37.) Bowels is used generally for the innermost, the vital parts, the seat of feeling, compassion, or sympathy. To bowel, to take out the bowels, to eviscerate, to excavate. See DISBOWEL. But the auctor of Polycronycon sayth, he was bowellyd at Crongthon Abbey and buryed at Worcetyr, in the myddle of the quier of mūkis, when he had reygned xvi. yeres. vi. monethes. and iiii. dayes.—Fabyan. K. John, an. 1217. Then was the bodye bowelled, embawmed, and cered, and secretly amongest other stuffe conueyed to Newcastle. Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 5 I therefore exhorte your excellent majestie in the bowels of Jesus Christ.-Bale. Apology, p. 61. The angrie and outragious woman, [Q. Isabell] who commaunded the erle [Hugh Spenser] to be bound, and without question or answere to bee drawen & hanged in his armour, taken downe aliue and bowelled, his bowelles burned, then his head smitten off, and his bodie hanged up againe, and after foure dayes to be cut all to peeces and cast to dogges to be eaten.-Stow. Edw. II. an. 1326. And verily, Homer seemeth not to be ignorant of this difference whereof we speak; for of diviners and soothsayers, some he calleth owvoroλous, i. e. augurs, that is to say authours or observers of birds; others lepers, that is to say, bowel-priers, that spie into the inwards of sacrifices. Holland. Pluturch, p. 995. And the bowell-prying soothsaier, (as it is reported) shewed to Decius the head of the liver on the inner side wounded (as it were) and cut off.-Holland. Livivs, p. 287. Nor to the surface of enliven'd earth, She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, Gray. The Bard. "A. S. Bur, bure, conclave, an inner chamber, a parlour, a bower," (Somner.) Dut. Bure, tugurium; Ger. Bauer, from Ger. Bauen; A. S. Byan; to inhabit, to indwell. Applied to— A habitation, a dwelling, an apartment in a dwelling; now usually applied-to some shaded place of retirement formed of trees or the bows or Their instruments were various in their kind, Af this, resuming heart, the prophet said: On Greeks, accurs'd, this dire contagion bring, Doth not the ox obedient bow Es patient neck, and draw the plough.-Cotton, Fab. 1. B pays his debts, and visit, when 't is due; Echaracter and gloves are ever clean, And then he can out-bow the bowing dean. There the sycophant and he The with bare-headed and obsequious bows, a Turkey, where the place, where the fortune, where the at be, are so insecure, that scarcely any have died in the beds for ages; so that the bow-string is the natural Je of Bashaws, yet in no country is power and distinction recarias enough, God knows, in all) sought for with such Les avidity, as if the value of place was enhanced by De danger and insecurity of its tenure. Burke. Speech on the Duration of Parliaments. And Junius thinks bower is so called because formed of the bows or boughs of trees. Justices some Buskede hem to the boure. ther this berde dwellyd Confortynge hure as thei couthe.-Piers Plouhman, p. 38. So mote I thrive, I shal at cockes crow Ful prively go knocke at his window, That stant ful low upon his boures wall. Chaucer. The Miller's Tale, v. 3674. And in a launde, vpon an hill of floures Giue me my lute in bed now as I lie The next day the lordes of Fraunce, who hadde lost their tentes and their prouisyons, thanne took counsayle to lodge in bowers of trees. more nerer to the towne. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 80. Thee lastly nuptial bowre, by me adornd Prior. Mercury & Cupid. Broome. Epist. to Mr. E. Fenton. He keeps a garden where the spices breathe, Parnell. The Gift of Poetry. [He] plac'd thy green and grassy shrine, With myrtle bower'd and jessamine. Warton. Ode on the Approach of Summer. Far happier thou, in this sequester'd bower, Mason. The English Garden, b. iii. O! what descriptive eloquence can tell Any thing round or rolling; a round body to roll upon the ground; a round or circular bodyhollow-to contain liquids; a round or circular hollow. And whyle the kynge was shyppinge of his men, one broughte forthe a bolle full of mede or meth to drynke vpon bon vyage, and after that came bowl after bowl, so that after drynke came dronkennes, and after iangelynge, and iangelynge tourned into strife, and stryfe tourned into fyghtinge, where through many were slayne. Fabyan. Edw. the Conf. an. 1053. The bowle is round, and doth down slide, Vncertaine Auctors. Totus Mundus, &c A gentle state, where two such tenis balles Gascoygne. Voyage into Holland. Garlick indeed should not be suffered to boll and run up to seed, and therefore the blade thereof ought to be wreathed. Holland. Plinie, b. xix. c. 6. A little boll or cup, to sacrifice and offer unto the gods withall.-Holland. Livivs, p. 611. Placed it [the obeliske] was in the middest of the shewplace, and upon it a bowle or globe of brasse set, glittering with thin plates of gold.-Id. Ammianus, p. 84. He [Antigonus] espied upon a time within his camp, certaine common souldiers playing at the ball and bowling, having their corslets on their backs, and their morions upon their heads, he took a great pleasure therein. Id. Plutarch, p. 341. An. Alas I had rather be set quick i'th' earth, And bowl'd to death with turnips. Shakespeare. Merry Wives, Act iii. sc. 4. Breake all the spokes and fellies from her wheele, And boule the round naue downe the hill of heauen, As low as to the fiends. Id. Hamlet, Act ii. sc. 2. The captains and commanders were then it seems at bowls upon the Hoe at Plymouth; and the tradition goes, that Drake would needs see the game up; but was soon prevail'd on to go and play out the rubbers with the Spaniards. Oldys. Life of Ralegh. The right side of the pall old Egeus kept, Another evil faculty he has, in making the bowling-green his daily residence, instead of his church, where his curate reads prayers every day.-Tatler, No. 71. The midnight reveller's intemperate bowl, His future life condemn'd to ceaseless pain. The most massie and fast wood, and therefore the weightiest of all other, by judgement of men, is that of the ebene and the boxe.-Holland. Plinie, b. xvi. c. 11. He withers at his heart, and looks as wan Dryden. Palamon & Arcite, b. i. A youth, once fowling in a shady grove, Fawkes. Bion, Idyl. 2. Chaucer and Mandeville adopt the Fr. Boist, (qv.) Box is technically distinguished from chest, trunk, bin, &c. And lo a synful woman that was in the cytee as sche knewe that Jhesus sat at the mete in the hous of the Farisee, she broughte an alabastre box of oynement; and sche stood bihinde bisidis hise feet; and began to moiste hise feet with teeris, and wypide with the heeris of hir heed, and kiste hise feet and anoyntide with oyntment.-Wiclif. Luke, c. 7. And beholde a woma in that citie, whiche was a synner, as That fond his maister wel in his chaffare, Chaucer. The Cokes Tale, v. 4388. This cursed man hath in his hond yhent And whan he had it thrice radde, That she there toke hym in present, Id. v. 12,802. Whan that he were anoynt withall.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. In this meantime returned from France the Lord James, who beside his great expences, and the losse of a box wherein was his secret purse, escaped a desperate danger in Paris. Knox. History of the Reformation, p. 293. And when she could not prevail with them to stay, being but few in company, though the natives had no edge-tools of iron or steel, and had proffer'd a great box of pearl for some armour and a sword, she sent her women to watch them all night in their ships on the bank-side. Oldys. Life of Ralegh. Canst thou not find, among thy numerous race Of kindred, one to tell thee that thy plays Are laught at by the pit, bo.r, galleries, nay, stage? Dorset. Epistle to Mr. E. Howard. Those who sat in the boxes appeared in the most unhappy situation of all. The rest of the audience came merely for their own amusement; these rather to furnish out a part of the entertainment themselves. Goldsmith. Citizen of the World, Let. 21. Yet, since his neighbours give, the churl unlocks, I mention these particulars, to let you see how much he will be obliged to me, as I shall be to you, if you can help him to this convenient little box, at a price which he shall have no occasion to repent.-Melmoth. Pliny, b. i. Let. 24. As sweetly he Who quits the coach-box at the midnight hour His legs depending at the open door.--Cowper. Task, b. i. BOX, v. Box, n. Bo'XER. Bo'XING, n. To knock, to strike, to beat, to hit; to fight with the fists. Cleopatra was in such a rage with him, that she flew upon him, and took him by the hair of the head, and boxed him well-favouredly.-North. Plutarch, p. 783. They cause a chambermaid to enter into her [Matata] Faith, they may hang their harps upon the willows; Where Slack is made to box with Broughton, I see the very stage they fought on. Cambridge. A Dialogue. A tilt or tournament, the martial diversions of our ancestors, was however an unlawful act; and so are boxing and sword playing, the succeeding amusement of their posterity. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 14. He grew one day very uneasy in bed, and a gentleman He [Ovid] had complain'd he was farther off from posses sion, by being so near, and a thousand such boyisms, whic Chaucer rejected as below the dignity of the subject. Dryden. Pref. to Fables One boy of ten, and another of nine years old, who ha killed their companions, have been sentenced to death, an he of ten years actually hanged; because it appeared upe their trials, that the one hid himself, and the other hid th body he had killed, which hiding manifested a consciousnes of guilt, and a discretion to discern between good and evil. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. Then Milton had indeed a poet's charms: BRABBLEMENT. To Brabble or brail; I Dut. Brabbelen, (be-rabbele see RABBLE); Fr. Brouille (to embroil,) is— To confound, to mingl to disturb, to trouble, to di who watched him, desirous of covering him up close, received order, to squabble, to rail. from the patient a violent box on his ear. Goldsmith. Particulars relative to Charles XII. The drone he shook, who rear'd the head, Churchill. The Ghost, b. iv. princes, and encouraged by a people, there would be reason If boxing were ever to become a spectacle patronised by to fear lest man, as man, had lost his value, lest life were estimated of little value; and lest the spirit of despotism BOY, v. BO'YSHIP. Knox. The Spirit of Despotism. Ger. Bub. Wachter observes, that the Lat. Pupus is a little boy; and Pupa, a little girl. The Ger. Bub, is perhaps formed from Bubu; which Wachter calls the natural voice of children, asking for drink. The Eng. Babe, (qv.) the Gr. Пa-is, the Lat. Pu-er, pu-pus, pupa ;-Pa-pa, common to so many tongues, all seem to derive their origin from the natural cry of children. The Lat. Pupus and pupa, receive a sexual distinction from their terminations. The Ger. Bub; Eng. Boy, are applied first to Male infants; then to male children, beyond By Cryst quath Peers Plouhman tho. theese pvbes wolle To beggers and to boyes. that loth ben to worcke. And all about her necke and shoulders flew Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 10. North. Plutarch, p. 42. And in thy absence, like a valiant gentleman, I well remember it:-he is too young, Beaum. & Fletch. Knight of Malta, Act ii. sc. 3. Thou hast no reputation wounded in't, Is his a boyish fault, that you should deem Beaumont. Psyche, c. 13. s. 239. Assuredly these callers make the blinde, more blind th he was before. But the Apostles obeying their maiste comaundment, called this man vnto Jesus, and so true is y they dyd not crie, & brable against him, as the people d that they put him (hauing good hope already) in more ho and comforte, saying: be of good chere, aryse Jesus calle thee.-Udal. Mark, c. 10. Emongst the poets new or ould, where shall we place him (lo,) Drant. Horace. Ep. b. ii. To Augusi of Tyndales tonge, as I trust yet to intreat hym hereafte Sir T. More. Workes, p. 4 In hauing our wiues with vs still in companye, we sho liue euer dying, for we should passe the nights in hear their complaints and the daies in suffering their brabl [Ed. 1553, brawlinges] and chidings.-Golden Boke, c. 1 I do not warn the of these thinges without a cause there be many wayward persones brablers and deceyue mennes myndes.-Udal. Titus, c. 1. And although S. Hierome would haue no body t patient, when he is suspected of herecie, yet we wil herein neither bitterly nor brablingly, nor yet be ca neither bitter, nor brabler yt speaketh ye truth. Jewel. Defence of the Apologie, Aron. -Away I say. Now by the Gods that warlike Gothes adore, This pretty brabble will undoo us all. away with anger & heate: though he ought to be reck Shakespeare. Titus Andronicus, Act ii. In the execution whereof there fell out a brabble a Lord Vaux his house in North-hamptonshire wherein were some blowes exchanged. Cabbala. Earl Carlile to the Duke, Nov. 20. If they meet with one who can relate the order of a or great dinner, discourse from point to point of a sol shew or pompe, tell a tale of some dreame, or make of a quarrell and brablement between him and another harken with great silence, bid him say on, and will never a circumstance.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 44. Dol. We hold our time too precious to be spent With such a brabler.-Shakespeare. K. John, Act. v BRACE, v. Lat. Brachium; It. Br BRACE, N. Fr. Bras, the arm; appli BRACELET. that which embraceth, or as the arms do.-Bracelet BRA'CER. Bracelet; It. Braccialetto. To hold, bind, or tie together; to tight strengthen, to fasten, to confine, to restrain. A brace of dogs, as Skinner remarks, is a of dogs, dogs braced or coupled together from usage, restricted in number to two. the n. and bracelet are applied, particula armour, or ornaments bracing or binding the brace, to a certain part of the rigging of a to certain timbers which are to brace or h gether. Upon his arm he bare a gaie bracer, I spie a bracelet bounde about mine arme, Whenwith he set his souldiers on suche a courage, that aking more thought for their burial the for their lives, euery apat aboute his righte arme a bracelet wherein was gren his owne name, and the name of his father. Goldyng. Justine, fol. 24. They carry also certaine little long bagges about an hand ted to their left arme, which serue them also in afarers for their bowes, full of the powder of a ceraleare whereof they make a certain beuerage. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 427. Which York obeys; and up King Henry comes, The dreadful bellowing of whose straight brac'd drums, -Do but start An echo with the clamor of thy drumme, Shakespeare. King John, Act v. sc. 2. la precious clothes his legs the chieftaine ties, -When we consider Tmportance of Cyprus to the Turke, And it our selnes againe but vnderstand, Pas it more concernes the Turke then Rhodes, Say he with more facile question beare it, Put that it stands not in such warrelike brace, But together lackes th' abilities that Rhodes is dress'd in. And when with little hands they stroke thy face As thy lap they sit (ah, careless!) playing, And amering ask a kiss, give them a brace, The last from me. P. Fletcher. Eliza, an Elegy. Mate the combatants, of mind elate, Dr their hands the dreadful gloves of fate : The ather thongs that brac'd their shoulders round, K-g, who was then at Newmarket, heard of it, and But then-her voice! how fram'd t'endear! The music of the gods to hear! that so piere'd, without offence, So brazd by the strong nerves of sense.-Smart, Bal. 10. Glover. The Athenaid, b. xviii. BRACH. Dut. Brack; Fr. Braque; It. Bracco. Look upon all the sad moneful objects in the world, betwixt whom all our compassion is wont to be divided; first the bankrupt rotting in a gaol; secondly, the direful bloody spectacle of the soldier wounded by the sword of war; thirdly, the malefactor howling under the stone, or gasping upon the rack or wheel; and fourthly, the gallant person on the scaffold or gallows ready for execution; and the secure, senseless sinner is the brachygraphy of all these. Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 580. It may be all the certainty of those high pretenders to it [science] may be circumscrib'd by as small a circle as the creed, when brachygraphy had confined it within the compass of a penny.-Glanvill. Van. of Dog. c. 2. He beheld himself, and sermon-writer; and did not know BRACK. A breach, any thing broken; A. S. Called I was William De la Poole, Some are in a secret discontent at God's afflicting providence; and this raiseth the memory of former mercies, and takes away the relish of present mercies; as the sweet showers of heaven that fall into the sea are turned into its brackish taste: such neither enjoy God nor themselves. Bates. The great Duty of Resignation. Having long since written a short discourse of the Saltness of the Sea, I had been industrious to devise ways of comparing water in point of brackishness. Boyle. Works, vol. iv. p. 594. A bracket or brace in Printing, is a certain mark bracing or confining words or lines together. BRACKET. So much of the verse as is explained, is included in one, if it be from the beginning of the verse, or, if not, in two brackets [] so that the rest of the text, which is excluded by the brackets, may coherently be read with the paraphrase of that which is included, and the sense continue undisturbed by that means.-Hammond. To the Reader. At the head of each article, I have referred, by figures included in brackets, to the page of Dr. Lardner's volume, where the section, from which the abridgement is made, begins.-Paley. Evidences, pt. ii. c. 6. BRAG, v. Dut. Braggeren; Fr. Brague. Junius observes that Brag, in Scotch, is fear, terror; and he quotes several instances from G. Douglas of the word so used. The Glossarist also remarks, that, to boast and brag one, is, to threaten, or sharply reprove one. And hence was deduced, as Junius believes, the English appliIcation of the word to those, who endeavour to strike terror into their opponent by the noisiness You may find time out in eternity, of their threats. The word itself he refers to the Deceit and violence in heavenly justice, A. S. Breg-an, terrere, to terrify. Skinner, on Life in the grave, and death among the blessed, Ere stain or brack in her sweet reputation. the other hand, says, perhaps from the Lat. Beaum. & Fletch. A Wife for a Month, Act i. sc. 1. Fragor; qui (sc.) fragorem magnum edit. G. Of Suffolke Duke in Queene Margarets daies, Let not a brack i'th' stuff, or here and there Id. Valentinian. Epilogue. A cord that would not slip Made serue the turn-Chapman. Homer. Odyssey, b. xvii. 'Tis but my closer preasing to the fre BRACK, n. Douglas writes, "with braik and boist," which, as Cotgrave says, that the Fr. Braque is a kind of To break or burst out, to bray out, (sc.) in short-tailed setting-dog, ordinarily spotted or party noisy threats, or boastings; in clamorous preten& The Switch Rach (see Jamieson); Eng. Dub. Secken, vomero pro derive it from, the sions; and thus to proclaim ostentatiously, (bra Brach; are applied to a hound, canis venaticus; to a Bale Bragge boastynge." See vingly); to vaunt, to boast, to exaggerate. Kilian,) because salt and salt water provoke vouses the expression, G. Douglas renders, BRAVE, and BRAY. Coy that scents out, or traces out by the scent; per- mition. (See PARBREAKE.) Brackish, impregnated with, tasting of, salt. Odorem The entreillis eke fer in the fludis brake Turberville. The Louer to his Careful Bed, &c. A great number of them rebelling against Spartacus, went And, what the famous flood far more than that enriches, Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 11. An horne blew with many boustous bragge, But did I then diuise with crueltie (As tyrants do) to kill the yeelding pray? As who should saye the field were mine that day. May brainsick Bacchus brag Turberville. To a late acquainted Friend. Geve place, ye louers, here before, Surrey. A Warning to a Louer In braggers boate which set itselfe on sandes, Gascoigne. Dan Bartholomew of Bath. |